There is no sincerer love than the love of food. — George Bernard Shaw Since the prior week, something miraculous has happened: there’s food in my refrigerator. As a graduate student, my shopping cart often consists of ramen, peanut butter, and a six-pack of PBR. But as of last Saturday, I have vegetables and hamburgers, sandwich…
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. — Virginia Wolf Attending a conference hosted by Ohio State this week, an odd occurrence happened. While sitting down for dinner with the other presenters, I noticed that I had ordered the exact same meal (a Caesar salad and lasagna) as…
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. — Jeff Bezos (CEO of Amazon.com, pictured below) If you didn’t know, Amazon is taking over the world. Already, they are the distributor for nearly 400 million retail products; their artificial intelligence system (Alexa) is in over 10 million homes; and now they own Whole…
Stories have shapes which can be drawn on graph paper. — Kurt Vonnegut The title of today’s post shares its name with the title of new and fascinating research that tries to answer the following question: why do certain movies, books, stories, etc. catch on and become popular? These days, it’s gone viral to say…
Today features an article from contributor, Matt Coleman, on how your views on productivity can influence more than just how much work you get done. In the modern Western world, we value productivity a lot. Many of us strive to maximize how much we can check off our to-do list and assess our self-worth accordingly….
The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. — Warren Buffett Usually, when we talk about habits, we’re not talking about the good ones: eating junk food, swearing, picking your nose, swearing while eating junk food and picking your nose, etc. But habits can also…